I’ve been pretty quiet on the writing front recently, as least as far as books are concerned. I am still plugging away, but the gig economy keeps me too busy most days to get much meaningful done. Although I am working on a really cool publishing project for a client at the moment that I hope I’ll be able to tell you about really soon! Between managing social media accounts and writing web copy (technical Read more…
Capote was an American author, born in New Orleans in 1924. His parents divorced four years later and he spent the latter part of his childhood being raised by his mother’s relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. In one of those weird coincidences that are so common in history, in Monroeville Capote befriended the future novelist Harper Lee. If you’ve read To Kill a Mockingbird, you’ll recognise young Truman in Dill, a small, small boy who lives with his aunt and befriends Jem and Scout.
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Yeah, the world is ending, but before it does many more people are finding themselves working from home for the first time. If you’ve never worked from home before, you’ve probably got half an idea of getting shit done from bed, in your PJs, with Netflix on in the background. And some days, working from home is totally like that. But most of the time, it’s really not that fun.
(more…)The Arundel Tomb is a stone monument featuring effigies of Richard Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel, and his second wife Eleanor of Lancaster. It dates back to 1376 and is currently housed in Chichester Cathedral, for those curious enough to want to see it. Although an interesting artifact in its own right, today it’s most famous for the Larkin poem it inspired.
I was reminded of the tomb recently while thinking about historical queer romance, and the realities of writing historical queer lives. (more…)
So I want to start a new series of book recommendations, based on titles that I think complement each other. Putting Sigmund Freud with James Bond might seem like an odd choice, but Fleming tells us directly to read Bond with Freud in mind in The Man with the Golden Gun. I wrote about queering James Bond several years ago, and I still stand by my thinking in that post. As for my copy of Read more…
Recently on Facebook, I saw three separate conversations, all about the same thing. One was an author asking how much sex was appropriate for a book of X length (basically, did it need more than she’d written). Another was a different author asking if a book needed depictions of full penetration, or if other sex acts were enough given the length of the title in question. And the third was a reader saying she was X percent into a book and the MCs hadn’t had sex yet, but she hoped they would soon.
Spot the lowest common denominator?
I’m excited to announce a new release from AJ Rose, written with a little help from yours truly. Welcome to Flaming, Missouri. (more…)
I haz exciting news. February 12th is the release date for the Free Men boxset, a collection of my bestselling series, plus three extra bonus scenes and the Free Men world map. It’s silly but I’m stupidly pleased with the map, and all the little details in it. It reminds me of the fantasy series I read as a kid. (more…)
